The Roaring Season

I have been following these guys for a while. They are transplanting a Toyota Celica GT-4 turbo motor and 4wd running gear into a Mini without altering the body of the Mini. What appeals to me is their awesome fabrication skills. Not only do they make a bracket, they take care it making it look ...

Sad news indeed. Phil was one of the good guys and will be greatly missed.

I remember this car from when Art was a student at Otago and the car was based at Mornington Motors in Dunedin. I went to several race meetings with Art and was general helper and tow vehicle co-driver. The car was also road registered and the very trusting owner would allow me to take it for a ...

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Jody's McLaren after his first lap shunt.

The McLaren indycar team had a sponsor whose name was Boyd Jeffries and I believe the guy in the white t-shirt was his son who spent the summer with the F1 team. I cannot remember his name.

Congratulations to all for providing some very entertaining racing at the weekend. The "close formation" lap at the end of the last race was an excellent idea.

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One for McLaren CanAm fans

When I went to Indy with McLaren in 1973 we still used these slope backed trucks.

John, Martin (Lyncar) Slater 4th from left and Norman Hossack to his left in front of Graeme? Correct Howard and Dave Shaw far left, Ray Stokoe back left, Ian Grob front 2nd from left, Ant Brown centre, Ian Bracey far right. Sorry can't recall the other two. Photo was taken after the race where it ...

Welcome to TRS John A - I have just forwarded that photo to Cookie - it might encourage him... Thanks Michael. Here is another that he might like. That is Cookie in the middle at the back and another Kiwi Warwick Orr third from right and JA front left. Ibec Hesketh.jpg This was the Ibec Hesketh ...

In the '70s the Dunedin Festival of Speed was a simple quarter mile drag on one of the streets in the industrial part of town. The Formula Pacfic cars I drove were owned by former Dunedinite John Anderson. We always took full advantage of various workshop facilities etc being offered in Dunedin by ...

Pretty good Howard. From left 2nd Ian Griffiths, 4th Peter Bruin 5th Phil Sharp 7th Alistair Caldwell 14th Graeme Cook and 15th JA. The car on the left is an M23 F1 and on the right an M16 Indy car. The photo was taken for some press shots on a weekend and shows about half of the staff employed by ...

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